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Fuck. Killed by an SUV failing to yield. He was a badass. I saw them in Milwaukee once and they were spectacular.
RIP
#HeavyMetal #guitar

Former Mastodon guitarist Brent Hinds dies aged 51 following fatal motorcycle accident
The metal guitar great died in Atlanta last night while riding his Harley Davidson

I was feeling pretty drained last night and wasn't sure if I should bike to work today. My knee was really bugging me going up steps (more than usual) and I decided I would wait til morning to decide, based on how I felt.
I felt totally fine this morning. Reset! I think it's because I walked nearly 5 miles yesterday, and also spent a lot of time on the floor fixing a laser cutter.

Iran vowed swift retaliation Saturday following the U.S. military’s strikes on the Iranian nuclear program.
“Every American citizen or military personnel in the region is now a target,” a commentator on Iranian state media said.
Al-Asad Air Base, an Iraqi installation 150 miles west of Baghdad that is operated jointly by the Iraqi and U.S. air forces, houses thousands of American troops,
the largest U.S. deployment in the country.
Iran and its proxies have in recent…

U.S. bases that could attack Iran — and become targets
A number of U.S. military sites in the Middle East could face reprisals if Trump strikes Iran.

The Milky Way is a less massive galaxy--new estimates of the Milky Way's local and global stellar masses
Jianhui Lian (Yunnan Uni.), Tao Wang (Yunnan Uni.), Qikang Feng (Peking Uni.), Yang Huang (U of Chinese Academy of Sciences), Helong Guo (Yunnan Uni.)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13665

The Milky Way is a less massive galaxy--new estimates of the Milky Way's local and global stellar masses
Stellar mass is the most fundamental property of a galaxy. While it has been robustly measured for millions of external galaxies, it remains poorly constrained for the Milky Way because of the strong selection effect from our inside perspective. In this work, we reconstruct the intrinsic vertical mass density profile in the solar neighborhood and the radial mass density profile across the entire Galaxy using data from the Gaia and APOGEE surveys, following careful correction for the selection f…

Retired firefighter friend on vacation at Topaz Lake, about 5 miles south of the #ConnerFire is safe. He's sent several photos of the smoke, but I didn't ask permission to post here so I won't.
His feeling was pretty strong that had it been in California, they would have beat it down overnight with helicopters. There wasn't much to this fire at the time.
Just have…

House Republican to be evicted from DC apartment after failing to pay months of rent (Brady Knox/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/3470912/cory-mills-evicted-dc-apartment-failing-pay-months-rent/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250714/p133#a250714p133

Browns DC Jim Schwartz expects career year from Myles Garrett following record-setting contract https://www.nfl.com/news/browns-dc-jim-schwartz-expects-career-year-from-myles-garrett-following-record-setting-contra…

Senate Democrats are increasingly concerned that President Donald Trump is considering striking Iran without seeking authorization from Congress
— or even filling them in on his plans.

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Virginia) is mounting a last-ditch push to force a vote as soon as next week
to restrain Trump from attacking Iran without Congress’s approval.

Other Senate Democrats say the White House has not briefed them on its plans for a potential strike.
And some are warn…

Democrats raise war powers concerns as Trump mulls Iran strike
The pushback follows Trump’s encroachment on almost every congressional prerogative — from taking control of the power of the purse to threatening tariffs.

I had seven moles surgically removed yesterday because my dermatologist didn't like the way they looked.
So now I have stitches all over my body and I'm not allowed to stretch unduly to prevent the sutures from coming apart.
I guess that's one way to keep me from reaching anything but the lowest hanging fruits.

Two wildfires are burning at or near the North Rim, known
as the White Sage Fire
and the Dragon Bravo Fire.
The latter is the one that destroyed the lodge and other structures.
The park initially was managing it as a controlled burn
but then shifted to suppression as it rapidly grew to 7.8 square miles (20 square kilometers) because of hot temperatures,
low humidity and wind, fire officials said.
No injuries have been reported.
Millions of peo…

A historic Grand Canyon lodge has been destroyed by wildfire, park official says
The Grand Canyon Lodge, the only lodging inside the park at the North Rim, was consumed by the flames, park Superintendent Ed Keable told park residents, staff and others in a meeting Sunday morning. He said the visitor center, the gas station, a waste water treatment plant, an administrative building and some employee housing were among the 50 to 80 structures lost.